Exceptionally small statistical variations in the transport properties of metal-molecule-metal junctions composed of 80 oligophenylene dithiol molecules

Strong stochastic fluctuations witnessed as very broad resistance (R) histograms with widths comparable to or even larger than the most probable values characterize many measurements in the field of molecular electronics, particularly those measurements based on single molecule junctions at room tem...

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Hauptverfasser: Xie, Zuoti (VerfasserIn) , Bâldea, Ioan (VerfasserIn)
Dokumenttyp: Article (Journal)
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 26 April 2017
In: Journal of the American Chemical Society
Year: 2017, Jahrgang: 139, Heft: 16, Pages: 5696-5699
ISSN:1520-5126
DOI:10.1021/jacs.7b01918
Online-Zugang:Verlag, Volltext: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jacs.7b01918
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Verfasserangaben:Zuoti Xie, Ioan Bâldea, Abel T. Demissie, Christopher E. Smith, Yanfei Wu, Greg Haugstad, and C. Daniel Frisbie

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